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This! I’m still on WSL1 and plan on moving to WSL2 during my next Sabbath month. WSL gives me access to all my regular devops and developer tools + Linux shell
by vbsteven 6y ago
This! I’m still on WSL1 and plan on moving to WSL2 during my next Sabbath month.
WSL gives me access to all my regular devops and developer tools + Linux shell while I don’t have to reboot for gaming and music production.
I switched about 1 year ago. Windows is now again a solid OS choice for developers and I expect lots more developers to make the switch with the recent and upcoming MacOS changes.
- easton 6y agoWell, the switch takes about five minutes. It’s just wsl -—set-version <distro> 2.
- vbsteven 6y agoYes I know, but I currently have a good setup with WSL1 where my code lives on my Windows disk, IntelliJ runs on Windows and I use WSL for terminal tools like git/zsh/tmux/terraform/kubectl etc. Just switching this setup verbatim to WSL2 will most likely lead to performance problems on file I/O from WSL to the windows disk (due to the architectural changes from WSL1 to 2). File I/O within WSL became faster, but crossing the boundary is more expensive making tools like git unusable when the code lives on the windows side. I could move the code to the WSL side but then every IntelliJ I/O operation needs to cross the "slow" boundary. Unless I also switch IntelliJ to WSL so it will probably take some experimentation before I arrive at a proper WSL2 setup that satisfies my needs.